''The Philanthropist'' is a quarterly

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

devoted to the legal, management and accounting issues facing charitable and not-for-profit organizations in Canada. It was founded as an occasional publication of the Trusts and Estates Section of the Canadian Bar Association - Ontario (now th
Ontario Bar Association
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1972. Its first Editor was

Bertha Wilson Bertha Wernham Wilson (September 18, 1923April 28, 2007) was a Canadian jurist and the first female puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Before her ascension to Canada's highest court, she was the first female associate and partner at ...

, later a judge of the

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. For a time during the 1980s it was an official publication of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy (no
Imagine Canada
. It derives its funding from the Agora Foundation in Toronto. The Ontario Law Reform Commission's Report on the Law of Charities (1996) called it "informed rather than learned". Its content is overseen by a volunteer editorial board drawn from the charitable sector, law, accounting and academia. As of May 2009 the current and archived content is available electronically at no charge.

External links

''The Philanthropist'' official site
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